jep@jephill.com wrote:
** Reply to note from "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@lightlink.com> Sun, 26 Jul 1998 00:17:22 -0400
One, they run too hot,
Too hot for what? Isn't this the old canard spread by Intel + sycophant press? My experience is very limited, but I haven't had that prob.
You're alone.
and two, floating point is slower than Intel,
Yes, but if you want FP, don't you buy Alpha?
No.....haven't needed to so far.
and three, they don't work on a lot of MOB's.
Wouldn't it be sufficient for them to work on some good ones (e.g., some mobos w Award bios.
I don't know of a good MOB that they'll work on, and there's NO advantage to me nor my users at Cornell to warrant use it. Fred -- Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fmiller@lightlink.com fm@cupserv.org - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e